This 2015 video produced by Mic, is part of the series “Flip the Script with Liz Plank.” Mic is a U.S. internet and media company that launched in 2011 and was designed to cater to millennials. This web series was produced by Liz Plank to confront social issues and challenge traditional assumptions people have about the world. In this video Plank and actor Arturo Castro discuss stereotypes of Latinx people in the media, before setting up a fake audition where they ask white actors to “act whiter.”

discussion

What stereotypes for Latinx people and white people are presented in this video?

What did the creators of this video do to “Flip the Script”–create a reversal in a typical, taken for granted situation? How did it make the white actors feel to have to play up their whiteness?

How does the video call attention to a systemic problem in Hollywood? What do you think casting agents and other Hollywood creatives can do to be more equitable?

What other scripts would you be interested in flipping?